Player Customization

[PokémonShinySilver]

Being able to customize your own character really does sound like an excellent idea. I noticed in the trailer that there were some differences with the characters in some way, perhaps the clothing and shoes will be content that you'll be able to send though StreetPass.

Pretty much most of us noticed that the male character was using rollerblades, maybe they might be part of the customization of your character's shoes? That would be so cool. x3

[Sydian]

I wouldn't utilize this really, haha. I think the girl looks cute the way she is. The boy just needs a complete redesign though. He looks...a tad familiar. :P

[pikakitten]

That'd be cool especially since he looks like Hilbert with the colors, I'd dress him up with a black beret, black shirt, blue/black pants, black dress shoes, make him look like me xD I wear black too much, plus I want a beret if I'm going to explore what looks like France xD

[LapLace1500]

Having customization for the protagonists would actually be very nice. I'm ok with how the female protagonist looks like already, she's really cute, but having more customization options like clothing would make the game a lot more fun. I don't know how but yeah :D

[Relith]

At the very least, we should be able to change the colors of the outfit.

[Bluerang1]

I need this. I can't deal with either character I'm extremely disappointed. Like the guy is wearing a blue jacket on jeans, block colors, eww!

[Elite Four Lucian]

Kayla and I were talking about this the other day...

Usually when we see some sort of supposed hint in a trailer that could lead to something we want, in which the case here is Customization. The trailer shows the male trainer looking into a mirror, this gives people the poor misconception it means we will have customization, but that may or may not be the case, we can't use this one thing to say that we may have customization, I mean don't get me wrong, but i hope this means we get customization, but I doubt it...

[Totodile42]

I'm not sure if this has already been posted, but in the rope-swinging part of the trailer, you can see (if you look at the spot where the character jumps from) floating glasses.
While this may be a glitch, it does seem to show that the glasses and character are separate models so to speak; therefore possibly indicating that customisation is possible.

[XerX]

I do hope this happens. It would be really neat to customize your own character and seeing other people's designs for their character.

[Roswell]

Originally Posted by Pinkie-Dawn

I'm only hoping for outfit customization rather than a customization of the protagonist's appearance, because there's a chance that Gen VI's protagonist, possibly the female trainer, will appear in the next Smash Bros. title to co-exist with Red and represent Gen VI with his default appearance rather than a random physical appearance. Sakurai wouldn't want to use a customizable character with no canon appearance. So I sincerely hope that this protagonist's appearance is his canon appearance.

What could be done is you start with default clothes, which can be considered the "canon" appearance. And then as you go through the game you can acquire more pieces of clothing to customize your character with. And heck, they could even just make it so that, later on, you could change the color scheme of the clothes.

So, that said, I would love to see customization, even if it's simple as just changing the color scheme or if they let you acquire more articles of clothing and whatnot. And, like people said, the mirror seems like it could be hinting toward such, so I hope that's the case!

[Darkrai Lv.1000]

IMO, the opportunity for player customization has been long overdue. xD
I was thinking of something like Battle Revolution's customization (skin color and stuff like that), and as you adventure, you can get/buy more things to dress your character up with, and there would be "special" clothing (like what you get for beating Colosseum masters in PBR) you can get from maybe Gym Leaders or certain characters. The Pokemon Centers could also have a "changing room" where you put things on.

Online, it would use these appearances, instead of an NPC Trainer sprite like that of the past games.

[Toujours]

What if they involved this with whatever new minigame they have - you can dress up your Pokemon as well as yourself and compete to win :3

[Skylands]

Branching out on the idea of customizable trainers, wouldn't it be cool if at the beginning of the game, it asks for your age and creates an avatar based on that age? So the hero could look younger or older depending on what age you select.

[jfuze174]

I do think its a little over due I say there should be a feature where you either choose one of the main protagonist or to create your own character or atleast make the main protagonist customizable so you won't really be changing the character but you could make the trainer look how you want it ehh it's just a thought

[Vehks]

Yes. We should have had this a few games ago IMO. Especially how ridiculous the last male protagonist was in B2/W2. If it's my very own pokemon adventure, why can't I make my own avatar?

[jfuze174]

Originally Posted by Vehks

Yes. We should have had this a few games ago IMO. Especially how ridiculous the last male protagonist was in B2/W2. If it's my very own pokemon adventure, why can't I make my own avatar?

Exactly how I feel it would make wifi battles more interesting because it would show player imagination on how they feel they would look if they became trainers ehh just saying it wouldn't hurt

[Totodile42]

Yes, I'd say so. It's something that's been lacking from the series for a while now.

[Lapras*]

I saw somewhere that there was a glitch that the male's glasses fell off when he was swinging on the branch. This possibly means that the glasses aren't attached to his model, meaning they could be taken off or changed, aka the protagonist could be customized? I thought that was a really interesting point!

[countryemo]

Honestly I never sought after this feature. I guess now that the game is 3D, I can get into some custimizations. I was just always fine with the given avatar. Wifi battles could be solved by selecting a traner skin before a battle also. But I just hope we can get rid of those sunglasses. .-.

[Mithel_Celestia]

Customizations could help distinguish each other's trainer. It is kind of wierd that when we do link battle/wifi battle/random matchup we are battling people that look like another copies of us. It would be interesting to let the game to implement this.

[mijumaru1]

Really hope it comes through, then everyone won't look the same!

[jfuze174]

Does look like we are finally getting it

[Genghoul]

If there is customization, it would be awesome if some articles of customizable clothing were easter eggs from other Nintendo games. If I could walk around a Pokemon world wearing Link's hat, my life would be complete.

[Bluerang1]

Further evidence to back-up Player Customization is the fact that the Player isn't seen throwing a Pokemon when a battle begins in the videos. Perhaps they can't have that feature in the game because of the wide variety of player sprites...

[Venitardus]

It would be great to have customization in these games. I would actually look different from everyone else. (Finally!!)